Celui au pasteur (ma vision personelle des choses)

Celui au pasteur is Lionel Baier’s personal approach to the authoritarian father whom he left in anger as an adolescent. As a one-man camera team Baier returns to his parents’ home in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, a small community high above Lake Geneva. Here he follows the everyday work of his father, a pastor, and instead of the authoritarian dogmatist he finds an aging doubter, who is often lonely and no longer necessarily loves his work. The father suffers from the church’s loss of significance; due to reduction of positions, he now also has to minister neighboring communities. He has gone from being a leader to a service provider, who works on weekends and also at night. Shortly before retirement, it seems that the father comes closer to his son, the filmmaker, not least of all through the precarious job situation. (Maya McKechneay)